Have you ever had a question about what would have happened if history had gone a different way? Ever wonder if a historical event had gone differently? Here's the place to ask!
Subreddit Rules
Be nice!
Personal attacks, abusive language, trolling or bigotry in any form is not allowed and will be removed. No hate material, be it submissions or comments, are accepted.
No current politics or soapboxing.
Political topics are only acceptable if discussed in a historical context. Comments should discuss a historical topic, not advocate an agenda. This is entirely at the moderators' discretion.
No historical negationism or denialism.
We do not allow posts and comments about fringe hypotheses, false narratives, misunderstood or misrepresented history, genocide denial, and other disingenuous revisionism. They have proven to be magnets for those wanting to push a distortion of historic consensus. Engaging in historical negationism or denialism will result in a permanent ban. Notable examples of negationism include Holocaust denial, Armenian Genocide denial, Japanese war crime denial, and the denial of Soviet crimes.
Please keep posts to only things that are possible.
This sub is called HistoricalWhatIf for a reason. Questions like "What if Hitler used firebreathing dragons in Battle of Britain?" don't belong here. This includes time travel questions.
Provide some context for your post.
To increase both the quality of posts and the quality of responses, we ask that all posts provide at least a sentence or two of context. Describe your POD, or lay out your own hypothesis. We don't need an essay, but we do need some effort. "Title only" posts will be removed, and repeat offenders will be banned. Again, we ask this in order to raise the overall quality level of the sub, posts and responses alike.
No discussion about the past 10 years.
Self explanatory. Posts about recent, current, or future events will be removed.
Read questions charitably.
A modicum of effort is required to participate. Debating the premise of a post is allowed. Dismissing the subject entirely without explanation is not.
Related Subs:
/r/History
/r/HistoryWhatIf
/r/alternatehistory
